An Open Letter to a Terrorist!!!

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In a message dated 09/12/2001 11:19:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, MORGHANNA

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An open letter to a terrorist:

 

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the

Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American bodies, to

take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed

America.

 

Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't

about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military

centers, America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch of

bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where

you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part,

like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that

you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)

 

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany:

" If you can not see my point, then feel my pain. " This concept is alien to

Americans. We live in a country where we don't have to see your point. But

you're free to have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But

you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the strange idea that

everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each other in this

country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that

don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect

ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the

spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.

 

If you're free enough.

 

Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an

unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling free

and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because

people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight

like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when

England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn't turn out like England

thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like you think,

either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most

recent.

 

No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST

and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger.

Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we

used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we used 'em

both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. Told me once, that

right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing

over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a

fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw the

switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something

about American Resolve?

 

So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some real

estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war with

random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're safe. Just like the

Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Better start sleeping with one eye open.

 

There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country,

looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if

they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons,

were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First thing they

did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that

didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big PITA then

(especially in south Florida), but you're only the newest PITA, not the

first.

 

You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in

America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it's called. And

killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it.

Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're

crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind

of Spirit.

 

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.

 

Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.

 

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